Engadget:
It started off innocently enough. Personal transporters, they told us, just robots to make life easier. Now look at them -- Toyota's Partner Robots are set for upgrades that include back-mounted solar chargers, spring-loaded (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The Milipol exhibition in Paris is where all the pros play with the military-industrial complex's hottest toys. I used special commando skills (and a press badge) to infiltrate the premises and show you the world's freshest, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's (Read More)
Engadget:
In a world where the Headtime scalp massager not only exists but presumably even sells, is it any wonder that assistant robots like this here fella are cropping up? While keeping the design somewhat generic in order to be abl (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Hi there, I'm Phil. I live in an electronics factory, and regularly need to pluck microcontrollers out of my feet when walking around barefoot. I thought I could bring some of that joy to you in a gift guide. It's going to be (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The mere promise of Google Wave inspired a rainbow of potential use cases, but Wave's best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here's how to manage a group project in Wave. Note: If y (Read More)
Engadget:
The MIT Technology Review has unearthed a new laser-based 3D mapping robot that can produce results similar to those obtained from $100,000 systems at about a fifth of the cost. Funded by the US Army, researchers at the Steve (Read More)
Engadget:
The MIT Technology Review has unearthed a new laser-based 3D mapping robot that can produce results similar to those obtained from $100,000 systems at about a fifth of the cost. Funded by the US Army, researchers at the Steve (Read More)
Lifehacker:
If you're running Google Chrome's development version, or a Mac or Linux nightly build of Chromium, you can already install three sample extensions from Google developers. Two of them add some pretty nifty Gmail and feed conv (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Rackspace is launching a new service called "Cloud Drive," that allows businesses to store, share and back up files in the Rackspace cloud.Rackspace is one of the world's largest hosting companies but with more services being (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Helmeted workers in cherrypickers, or precariously tethered to a high voltage lines, are as much a part of our power infrastructure's aesthetic as towers and transformers. In the next few years, these iconic silhouettes will (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There were some perks to dating a cyborg. My ex-boyfriend Josh was born mostly deaf, but had some hearing in one ear thanks to a cochlear implant—a spiral of electrodes threaded into his cochlea to stimulate the auditory nerv (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There were some perks to dating a cyborg. My ex-boyfriend Josh was born mostly deaf, but had some hearing in one ear thanks to a cochlear implant—a spiral of electrodes threaded into his cochlea to stimulate the auditory nerv (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There were some perks to dating a cyborg. My ex-boyfriend Josh was born mostly deaf, but had some hearing in one ear thanks to a cochlear implant—a spiral of electrodes threaded into his cochlea to stimulate the auditory nerv (Read More)
Engadget:
Sometimes when we see the seemingly slow advance of Honda's ASIMO, the inherent limitations of WowWee toys, or the purposefully limited one-off research projects of universities, we start to give up hope of being super best p (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The first HUBO robot innocently rode a Segway. The HUBO 2 looks like he's ready to turn into a killer ninja-bot as he practices tai chi, hones his swordsmanship, and still has time for a drink. We are so screwed. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
One idea behind a "cyborg life" is that we look to machines to take on critical, physical roles. These 10 machines illustrate how we have already begun passing the torch on tasks we are getting to lazy to do ourselves. Rememb (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The idea behind a "cyborg life" is that we look to machines to take on critical, physical roles. These 10 machines illustrate how we have already begun passing the torch on tasks we are getting to lazy to do ourselves. Rememb (Read More)
Popular Science - robots:
Hostage situations are often described like explosive devices, as ticking time bombs waiting to go off. And just as bomb disposal units have robots to help with their job, now police negotiators have a bot of their own for de (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As the holiday shopping season approaches, more consumers are looking for online coupons to provide discounts. In fact, Google Insights for Search indicates that searches for coupons and promo codes are steadily growing with (Read More)